Vittal K Kandula, MD
Anesthesiology · Santa Clara
- Medicare standing
- Clear
- Enrolled, allowed to bill and order, not excluded
- Plans that list them
- Not verified
- Not the same as out of network.
- Offices
- 2
Offices
2 locations · Permanente Medical Group Inc · 10,928 clinicians in this group
Plan participation
Not verified
We could not verify current plan participation for this doctor. This does not mean they are out of network. Call Dr. Kandula’s office at (408) 851-1000 to ask if they take your plan before you enroll.
California Medical Board record
Licence A67818 · Current
Licensed to practise in California · since 1999 · expires 2026-11-30 · Osmania University, Osmania Medical College.
No disciplinary actions, convictions, malpractice judgments or citations in this record.
Drugs they prescribed that Part D paid
$1,005
Pharmacies billed $1,005 in 2024.
This is pharmacy cost, not the office bill, and not what patients paid.
Opioids were 0% of their Part D prescriptions (0 of 55) in 2024. At or below the middle of the specialty; the typical anesthesiology clinician is at 0%.
54 generic and fewer than 11 brand-name prescriptions · $1,005 in drug cost.
Part D prescriptions only. The opioid rate is opioid prescriptions as a share of all this clinician's Part D prescriptions; surgeons and pain specialists run higher than others, so it is shown against the same specialty.
| Gabapentin | 26 | $528 | $20 |
| Tizanidine | 11 | $145 | $13 |
Year by year
| 2024 | 55 | 25 | 0% (0) | None | $1,005 |
| 2023 | 35 | 15 | 0% (0) | 0% | $1,235 |
| 2022 | 18 | None | 0% (0) | 0% | $380 |
| 2016 | 25 | 11 | 60% (15) | None | $5,049 |
| 2015 | 41 | 22 | 63% (26) | 27% | $5,184 |
| 2014 | 43 | 23 | 37% (16) | None | $2,661 |
| 2013 | 98 | 30 | 49% (48) | 32% | $5,934 |
Part D prescriptions only. A drug prescribed to fewer than 11 people in a year is hidden.
See the drugs prescribed each year
2015: 1 drug
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen | 13 | $615 | $47 |
2013: 5 drugs
| Gabapentin | 13 | $1,526 | $117 |
| Oxycodone Hcl-Acetaminophen | 11 | $624 | $57 |
| Tizanidine | 17 | $322 | $19 |
| Methadone | 11 | $211 | $19 |
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen | 11 | $182 | $17 |
Money from drug and device companies
$46 in 2024
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | None | $46 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | None | $64 |
Paid work is consulting, speaking, honoraria and royalties, as opposed to meals and travel.
A payment is not proof that care is biased.
| Heron Therapeutics | Aponvie | $46 | 1 payment
|
See the published payment
| Heron Therapeutics | Meals · 2024-03-22 | Aponvie | $46 |
See earlier years (2023)
2023: $64
| SPR Therapeutics | Sprint Pns System | $64 | 1 payment
|
Professional record
- NPI
- 1659457174
- Licence
- CA A67818California A67818: Current · expires 2026-11-30
- Gender
- Male
More record details
- Sole proprietor
- No
- Medicaid ID
- CA 00A678180
- Taxonomy
- Federal specialty code 207L00000X (207L00000X)
- Mailing address
- 1800 Harrison St Fl 7, Oakland, CA, 94612
- NPI first listed
- 2006-10-27
- NPI last updated
- 2021-12-06
This is when the NPI record was last certified, not a medical board exam.
This office lists an electronic records connection.